SATURDAY 11 JULY 2020

SAT 01:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp3362c)
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SAT 01:06 Business Matters (w172x18tdnfwf58)
Historic Supreme Court win for Native Americans

The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday about half of Oklahoma belongs to Native Americans, in a landmark case that also quashed a child rape conviction. The justices decided 5-4 that an eastern chunk of the state, including its second-biggest city, Tulsa, should be recognised as part of a reservation. We hear from representatives of the Muscogee Creek and Cherokee Nations about the significance of this ruling. Also in the programme, Amazon has said an email sent to employees asking them to remove the video-sharing app TikTok from any mobile device that can access their company email was sent in error. The BBC's Michelle Fleury breaks down the security concerns Amazon may have about TikTok. And we have an in-depth report examining how African American-owned assets can be undervalued. Plus, a new book explores the historical relationship between McDonalds and black business owners.

All through the show we'll be joined by business journalist Peter Ryan, senior business correspondent with the ABC in Sydney.

(Picture: A representative of the Choctaw nation. Picture credit: Shutterstock)


SAT 02:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp339th)
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SAT 02:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b7gl7p27m)
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SAT 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ppxdpsp2w)
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SAT 02:32 Stumped (w3cszhjc)
Cricket in a bio-bubble

After a 117-day absence, live international cricket is back. Ali is in Southampton as England take on the West Indies behind closed doors. She gives us a behind-the-scenes tour of the media bio-bubble and speaks to England bowler Mark Wood. And with a decision on the Men’s T20 World Cup expected next week, Ali, Jim and Charu discuss whether the IPL should be allowed to take its place in the schedule.

Image: England cricketers wearing face masks at the Ageas Bowl. (Getty Images)


SAT 03:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp33fkm)
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SAT 03:06 The Fifth Floor (w3cszjh7)
Iran's female gamers

Lockdown has boosted online gaming everywhere, but when Sheida Hooshmandi of BBC Persian investigated Iran’s gaming scene she discovered a surprising number of participants are women. So what are the particular challenges for female gamers in the Islamic Republic of Iran?

ABC….
It’s as easy as ABC, but learning your alphabet is trickier in some places than others. Fifth Floor class of 2015 takes us through their ABCs.

Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM, has seen a surge in popularity in China since the Covid-19 pandemic. Beijing recently considered making criticism of TCM a crime in the province, but this sparked a huge backlash amongst citizens. Yashan Zhao of BBC Chinese explores the differing views of TCM within China.

Singing for Oromia: Hachelu Hundessa
The killing of the Oromo singer Hachelu Hundessa in Ethiopia triggered huge ethnic unrest, killing more than 200 people. Kalkidan Yibeltal is based in Addis Ababa and explains why Hachelu meant so much to the Oromo people.

The new cyclists of Dhaka
BBC Bangla’s Rocky Shahnewaj is a keen cyclist. It’s the quickest way through Dhaka’s crowded streets, and keeps him fit. So when his social media pages started filling up with pictures of shiny new bikes in Bangladesh’s capital post coronavirus lockdown, he decided to check it out.

Image: Iranian women watching gaming on smart phone
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SAT 03:50 Witness History (w3cszmv3)
The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist

In the summer of 1967 more than 100 cities in America were caught up in riots. US Senator Fred Harris urged the President, Lyndon B Johnson, to investigate the causes. He set up the Kerner Commission and appointed Fred Harris as one of 11 members to find out why America was burning. The final report shocked many Americans when it blamed white racism for creating and sustaining black ghettos. It said the US was dividing into two separate and unequal societies - one black and one white. Claire Bowes has been speaking to former US Senator Fred Harris.

Photo: Members of the Kerner Commission giving final approval to the panel's report on 28th February 1968. Senator Fred R. Harris, (D-Okla.) third from left.
Credit: Bettmann/Getty


SAT 04:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp33k9r)
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SAT 04:06 The Real Story (w3cszcn3)
Lebanon on the brink

The financial crisis in Lebanon seems to have accelerated rapidly ever since the government defaulted on a ninety-billion-dollar loan in March.The currency has lost nearly eighty percent of its value pushing a large group of its population below the poverty line. A shortage of cash has led many to barter household goods for food on Facebook. Even the Lebanese army has stopped serving meat to its soldiers. And many of its citizen are seeking refuge abroad. At the heart of the crisis is the country’s banking sector. Protesters see it as the embodiment of a corrupt economic system that has enriched the elites who are now unwilling to foot their share of the bill. Now, compounded by the outbreak of the coronavirus, has Lebanon entered its most critical moment since the end of the civil war? As the country stares into the abyss will its disparate political groups be willing to come together to prevent a financial meltdown? Ritula Shah and a panel of expert guests discuss what hope there is for Lebanon.


SAT 05:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp33p1w)
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SAT 05:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b7gl7pfh0)
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SAT 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ppxdpt1b8)
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SAT 05:32 Trending (w3cszvry)
How to talk about conspiracy theories

We’ve all been there – that awkward situation that happens over the dinner table or at a party, when someone starts talking about conspiracy theories.
With the coronavirus pandemic has come a huge wave of novel online misinformation – including some outlandish ideas and panicky people who are buying into them.
So what do you do when confronted with someone who starts spouting obvious falsehoods about “evil plots” and “deadly vaccines”?
Trending brings together a man who’s been drawn towards social media’s fringes and an expert who studies the psychology of people who believe in conspiracy theories.
What happened when they sat down for a socially distanced chat?
Plus we give some tips on how to talk to people who are edging towards the rabbit hole.

Presenter: Jonathan Griffin
Reporter: Marianna Spring

Photo caption: Woman wearing a mask looking at a computer screen
Photo credit: Getty Images


SAT 05:50 James Naughtie’s Letter to America (w3ct0whk)
Letter two

How two very different Presidents – Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan - shaped the image of the Oval Office. As so often in the story of leadership, one president’s failings highlight another’s strengths.

Producer: Tara Neill and Regan Morris


SAT 06:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp33st0)
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SAT 06:06 The Evidence (w3ct0wlb)
Coronavirus: The Evidence

Covid 19: recovery

Claudia Hammond and a panel of international experts look at the latest research into Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus which is sweeping through the world.

Our panel of experts discuss how many people make full recoveries but others are finding that life hasn’t yet returned to normal months after infection. In India and Sweden, clinics are being set up to follow survivors of the virus and doctors are discovering that people are having difficulties assimilating what happened to them. And we hear about how three generations of one Spanish family all survived and how they are all recovering differently, including the 96 year old grandmother.

On the panel are Seema Shah, Professor of Medical Ethics at North Western University, Professor David Heymann, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Soo Aleman from the Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden, Dr David Collier, Clinical director of the William Harvey Clinical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London and Dr Netravathi M, Professor of Neurology at the National Institute for Mental Health and Neuroscience in Bangalore in India.

The Evidence is produced in association with Wellcome Collection.

Producers: Geraldine Fitzgerald and Caroline Steel
Editor: Deborah Cohen

Picture: A physiotherapist takes care of a patient in rehabilitation as he recovers from an infection with the coronavirus COVID-19, Credit: Patrick/AFP via Getty Images


SAT 07:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp33xk4)
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SAT 07:06 Business Weekly (w3ct0snr)
The fall of Wirecard - a German scandal

Its been the biggest corporate scandal of 2020 so far. Wirecard was one of Germany’s biggest companies but now finds itself embroiled in fraud and corruption claims. How did the technology star fall so quickly from grace? Fergus Nicoll investigates. The coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on the education sector - in the United States new rules say foreign students might face deportation if their courses have gone online, throwing their lives into disarray. Rob Young hears their stories. And what’s the formula behind a winning brand? We join Elizabeth Hotson on a quest to bring out a winning range of mushy peas. Presented by Vishala Sri-Pathma.

(Image: Wirecard building in Munich)


SAT 08:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp34198)
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SAT 08:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3csz9pp)
Australia’s second lockdown

In May, it looked like Australia’s battle with coronavirus was beginning to ease. Restrictions were lifted and there was hope the country could begin to recover from the pandemic and the job losses it brought. However, for the state of Victoria, those hopes are on hold once more. Five million people in Melbourne – Australia’s second largest city – have been barred from leaving home for six weeks following a spike in new infections, as Shaimaa Khalil reports.

Hong Kong once again finds itself at the centre of a diplomatic falling-out between the UK and China, after China imposed a controversial new security law on the former British colony. The law, which was passed last week, has been criticised internationally as a crackdown on basic freedoms. In response, the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has pledged to offer three million Hong Kong residents the chance to settle in the UK and ultimately the chance to apply for citizenship. However, China reacted swiftly to undermine the UK’s offer and to challenge its credibility, even threatening countermeasures. But for many who were Hong Kong residents before the handover in 1997, it has offered them a way out. Grace Tsoi is amongst those facing a difficult choice.

Ever since the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minnesota there’s been a spotlight on racism the US and elsewhere, with protests and support for the Black Lives Matter movement across the world. This includes South Asia, too. But the conversation around race and colour is very loaded for South Asians themselves and not just in regard to people of different ethnic backgrounds. As Karishma Vaswani has experienced often the deep divides within Asian society itself aren’t scrutinised enough.

The Balearic Islands, off eastern Spain, have long provided sun, sea and sand to tourists eager to leave their troubles behind. German, British and Scandinavian travellers have been known to turn up in their millions each year but it’s the Brits and their taste for booze that have made tourism bosses enforce a new ruling. Government chiefs in Ibiza and Majorca have imposed a 6 drink-a-day limit in all-inclusive hotels, a ban on happy hours and made it illegal to advertise pub crawls. The hope is that the Balearics can attract a different kind of holidaymaker and change the area’s reputation.
The archipelago has not been immune to coronavirus and tourism has plummeted, but as Lottie Gross has heard, that has not put the plans on hold.

Presenter: Pascale Harter
Producer: Bethan Head

(Image: Police officers at a check point in Albury, New South Wales, speak to drivers hoping to cross the border from the state of Victoria. Credit: AAP Image/Lukas Coch via Reuters)


SAT 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ppxdptdkn)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


SAT 08:32 Kalki Presents: My Indian Life (w3ct0t3w)
New York to Shimla

Ilma’s life was in the USA. Then a call to her mum made her decide to return home to India and find a new career - as a police officer. Ilma Afroz had attended the best universities, and was building an international career in the Big Apple, but she wanted India to benefit from her experience. “My talent, my education and my whole self is for my country,” she says.
Send us your stories: myindianlife@bbc.com
And let us know what you think #MyIndianLife


SAT 08:50 Resolves (w3ct0v7f)
Resolves

Juliana Engberg

International curator and festival director Juliana Engberg resolves to “continue to enable, craft, produce and exhibit work by artists so that we can all go on discovering who we are and what we care about”.

From her partial lockdown in Auckland, away from home in Australia, she is shocked and challenged by the predicament of festivals, museums and theatres, but determined to find ways for these places to continue, to operate and thrive.

“I realise why I continue to work with art, in all its forms - musical, movement, literary, visual - because it’s a means by which we step out of the commonplace into a suspended moment of encounter, so we can contemplate and release our emotions and curiosity. Art might be surprising, confusing, strange, delightful, inspire love or disgust; it helps us move through our lives in all their dark, light and unstable passages. During these dark lockdown times, it’s art that makes me completely forget I am just a lump of chemical and biological processes that could catch or infect another with Covid-19.”

Image: Juliana Engberg (Credit: Kay Campbell)


SAT 09:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp3451d)
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SAT 09:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b7gl7pxgj)
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SAT 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ppxdptj9s)
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SAT 09:32 Spitfire: The People’s Plane (w3ct0t1q)
Spitfire: The People’s Plane

Scramble

15th September 1940 was the moment the Germans chose to drive the Spitfire from the battlefield. The people on the ground, guiding the Spitfires - spotters, plotters and fitters- will play a vital role in a day that changed the course of World War Two.

Presenter: Tuppence Middleton
Producers: Alasdair Cross and Emily Knight
Editors: Chris Ledgard and Kirsten Lass


SAT 09:50 Over to You (w3cszf4h)
Are the BBC’s editorial values based on impartiality outdated?

In light of Black Live Matter, has there been a clarification around impartiality? Are the BBC’s editorial values based on impartiality outdated? And how is the BBC ensuring diversity in regard to rethinking topics, story-telling and interviewees? We put listeners’ questions to the BBC’s director of News and Current Affairs Fran Unsworth.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon


SAT 10:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp348sj)
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SAT 10:06 Sportshour (w172x3bv9srn2l7)
The return of international cricket and one man's road to recovery

We go live to Southampton where it is day four of the first test match between England and the West Indies. It has been four months without International cricket and we bring you the latest action from our team who are at the ground.

It’s not just listening to cricket that has made a welcome return this week, in the next few hours cricketers up and down the UK will be pulling on their whites for the first time as they are allowed to play for the first time and we hear from one of the players.

In January, Mose Masoe, a Samoan Rugby international, was playing in a pre-season friendly match for his team Hull KR and went into a tackle awkwardly. When he woke up he couldn’t feel his legs and told he would never walk again. Fast forward 6 months and he has taken his first steps. We caught up with him and his wife Carissa, who’s about to give birth to their third child.

The European PGA tour got underway this week and we hear from caddie Ollie Briggs on what it is like returning to the golf course.

A club in Lesotho has become the first top flight football club to announce equal budgets for its women’s and men’s football teams. Puky Ramokwoatsi is the manager of the women's team and shares her story of how she became involved with the club.

How will you remember this year in sport? Instead of focusing on what we’ve not seen, we meet someone who shows us what we’re missing. Laurence Griffiths is a Getty images sports photographer.

Photo: West Indies players taking the knee before their Test match against England in Southampton (Credit: Getty images)


SAT 11:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp34djn)
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SAT 11:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b7gl7q4ys)
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SAT 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ppxdptrt1)
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SAT 11:32 Global Questions (w3ct0wj2)
Global Questions

Coronavirus: A step back for women?

Is the lockdown turning back the clock on women’s lives? While men have paid disproportionately with their lives during this pandemic, its women who appear to be bearing the brunt of the economic fallout of the pandemic. They are taking on a greater share of domestic work and childcare – and are more likely than men to be working in sectors that have shut down during the pandemic. The UN has described the worldwide increase in domestic abuse as a "shadow pandemic" alongside Covid-19. And yet female leaders at the helm of various nations have been commended for managing the crisis better than their male counterparts. But while resilience, pragmatism, benevolence and trust are cited as successful features of women leaders – is it also a reflection that where women are elected as leaders there is a greater presence of women in positions of power across the board? Zeinab Badawi will be joined by Alexandra Shulman former editor-in-chief of British Vogue and Tina Tchen CEO of Time’s Up and Former Chief of Staff to First Lady Michelle Obama


SAT 12:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp34j8s)
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SAT 12:06 Music Life (w3csz6t1)
The art of pop with Soweto Kinch, Charlotte Adigéry and Jordan Rakei

Saxophonist, MC and poet Soweto Kinch talks to Charlotte Adigéry and Jordan Rakei about pop music inspirations, writing to fit in a genre, and the role ego plays in their art.

Charlotte Adigéry is a Belgian-Caribbean musician, born and raised in Ghent to parents from Martinique and Guadeloupe, and she’s hard to define by genre. She also performs as electro-punk alter ego WWWater. When making music, Charlotte has said, “I try and make something without thinking about direction or genre or sound.”

Jordan Rakei is a New Zealand-Australian jazz, soul, R&B, and pop musician, singer, songwriter and producer. His breakthrough record came in 2017 with Wallflower, and he released the Origin LP earlier this year. He’s also worked with the likes of Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Loyle Carner and Anna Calvi.


SAT 13:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp34n0x)
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SAT 13:06 Newshour (w172x2yry6lttnh)
25 years since Bosnia's Srebrenica massacre

Present and past world leaders have been addressing Bosnians and dignitaries gathered at Srebrenica, as part of ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the massacre of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys.

Also in the programme: President Trump commutes sentence of Roger Stone, longtime friend and adviser; and we hear from a front-line doctor about coronavirus in Yemen.

Picture: Bosnian Muslim women mourn next to gravestones during a funeral ceremony at the Potocari Memorial Center and Cemetery, in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 11 July 2020. Credit: EPA/FEHIM DEMIR.


SAT 14:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp34rs1)
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SAT 14:06 Sportsworld (w172x3l79c5v9fc)
Live Premier League commentary

Sportsworld is joined by our panelists Anita Assante, Benni Mccarthy and Jose Fonte for all the latest football news and the build up to the day's Premier League matches. We'll have live Premier League commentary from Anfield as the champions Liverpool take on Burnley.

Plus, we'll bring you the latest from the second weekend of Formula 1 racing in Austria following a dramatic start to the season last weekend. And we'll have updates from the cricket where England take on the West Indies on day four of their test.

And we'll be talking all things golf, Major League Soccer and tennis.

Photo credit: Liverpool's Sadio Mane pictured at Anfield (Getty Images).


SAT 18:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp357rk)
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SAT 18:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b7gl7r05p)
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SAT 18:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ppxdpvm0y)
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SAT 18:32 Trending (w3cszvry)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:32 today]


SAT 18:50 James Naughtie’s Letter to America (w3ct0whk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:50 today]


SAT 19:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp35chp)
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SAT 19:06 The Documentary (w3ct0wjd)
Summer with Greta

The 17-year-old campaigner Greta Thunberg tells the story of her whirlwind year, which took her across the Atlantic twice as she went to speak to the UN General Assembly. She describes seeing the grandeur and wastefulness of the US with her own eyes - and observing some of the feedback loops induced by global warming. And she expresses her frustration and despair at the lack of action by international leaders, especially of richer nations, to really tackle climate change. And she explains why she thinks the news media so often trivialise or misunderstand the issue.

This is an abridged version of the most popular radio programme in Sweden: Sommar (Summer). Over 90 minutes, famous individuals read an extended personal essay, accompanied by their choice of music. It’s said that being chosen to present Sommar is the Swedish equivalent of being knighted. One recent episode was listened to by around a third of the entire Swedish population. Greta Thunberg translated her original Swedish script into English for the programme.

Producer: Mattias Österlund
Sound engineer/technician Lisa Abrahamsson


(Greta Thunberg wearing the summer crown in Stockholm, Sweden. Credit: Mattias Ahlm / Sveriges Radio)


SAT 20:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp35h7t)
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SAT 20:06 The Arts Hour (w3cszk30)
Actor Parminder Nagra

This week on The Arts Hour with Nikki Bedi: German director Werner Herzog reveals why his latest movie, Family Romance LLC, had to be a feature film rather than a documentary; actor Helen McCrory on stage fright; and Malian singer/songwriter Rokia Traore with a performance recorded in Bamako, especially for the BBC

Actor Himesh Patel tells us about filming The Luminaries in New Zealand and singer/songwriter Norah Jones talks about hiding behind her songs.

Joining Nikki to discuss the week’s cultural highlights are film critic Rich Cline and actor Parminder Nagra, star of ER, The Blacklist, Fortitude and Agents of SHIELD, talking about her transatlantic career.

(Photo: Parminder Nagra. Credit: Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images)


SAT 21:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp35lzy)
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SAT 21:06 Newshour (w172x2yry6lvsmj)
Bosnia marks 25 years since massacre

Nine recently-identified victims of the massacre at Srebrenica have been buried during a ceremony in Bosnia marking 25 years since it took place.

Also in the programme: After large protests in Bamako, Mali’s Prime Minister, Boubou Cissé, has offered to hold talks with opposition forces; and the World Council of Churches has called on Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to reverse his decision to turn the celebrated Hagia Sophia museum back into a mosque.

(Photo: Bosnian Muslim women wearing face masks mourn in front of the casket of a newly identified victim during a burial ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 22:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp35qr2)
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SAT 22:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3csz9pp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:06 today]


SAT 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ppxdpw30g)
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SAT 22:32 Global Questions (w3ct0wj2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:32 today]


SAT 23:00 BBC News (w172x5nwgp35vh6)
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SAT 23:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b7gl7rlxb)
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SAT 23:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ppxdpw6rl)
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SAT 23:32 The Why Factor (w3csytzm)
Why do we care where we come from?

Most of us feel some need to know a roadmap of our past, our connections with a family tree which took root before we were born. We look for stories to tell about where we come from and seek answers in the lives of our ancestors, even in the DNA they pass on to us. In this edition of the Why Factor, Viv Jones asks why we have such a fundamental need to discover the stories of our heritage, and what they tell us about ourselves.

Contributors:
Sandy Banks, journalist
Caitriona Palmer, author of ‘An Affair With My Mother’
Fenella Cannell, Associate Professor Of Anthropology, London School of Economics
Tim Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, University of Alberta
Catherine St Clair, founder of NPE Friends Fellowship

Image: Woman admiring the sunset
Credit: Getty Images


SAT 23:50 More or Less (w3ct0pxj)
Sweden’s lockdown lite

Unlike its Nordic neighbours, Sweden never imposed a lockdown to stem the spread of coronavirus. Tim Harford speaks to statistician Ola Rosling to find out what the results have been.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Jo Casserly

Picture: A woman wears a face mask at a Stockholm bus stop where a sign reminds passengers to maintain a minimum social distance. Sweden 25 June 2020. Credit: EPA/ Stina Stjernkvist.